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A review by zanderstruck
Tale of a Dragon Princess by Lizzie Colt
2.0
I received this arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I think I went into this story expecting something different. It is marked as a novelette, so I should have known it was short beforehand. It still surprised me a bit.
What I liked about this story is the diversity. It featured a f/f romance, one half of which was a woman of colour and suffered from a disability. Overall it's a nice little fairytale about a cursed princess, who transforms into a dragon at night and sets out to save herself from that curse. The story itself is intriguing enough, but the execution sadly didn't work for me.
Since the story was so short, I felt like everything was very rushed. Two chapters were filled with introduction that could have dealt with in a quicker manner so that there would be more space for adventures on her quest to save herself. There wasn't space though and that meant there weren't really adventures. The romance also came quite out of nowhere and the resolution to the conflict came quick and easy.
I would say this could be a nice read for much younger readers than me, maybe middle-grade, who just wanna read something quick and easy without much drama or excitement. The diversity is great, everything else was sadly lacking in my opinion and couldn't convince me.
I think I went into this story expecting something different. It is marked as a novelette, so I should have known it was short beforehand. It still surprised me a bit.
What I liked about this story is the diversity. It featured a f/f romance, one half of which was a woman of colour and suffered from a disability. Overall it's a nice little fairytale about a cursed princess, who transforms into a dragon at night and sets out to save herself from that curse. The story itself is intriguing enough, but the execution sadly didn't work for me.
Since the story was so short, I felt like everything was very rushed. Two chapters were filled with introduction that could have dealt with in a quicker manner so that there would be more space for adventures on her quest to save herself. There wasn't space though and that meant there weren't really adventures. The romance also came quite out of nowhere and the resolution to the conflict came quick and easy.
I would say this could be a nice read for much younger readers than me, maybe middle-grade, who just wanna read something quick and easy without much drama or excitement. The diversity is great, everything else was sadly lacking in my opinion and couldn't convince me.